Text file: 548.txt
author: amarita
downvotes: 3
end consideration date: 2010-04-08
id: '548'
number comments: 13
number views: 5686
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs\nAt the time\
  \ the proposal was made on www.predlagam.vladi.si, the Ministry of Labour, Family\
  \ and Social Affairs was preparing a proposal for a Small Labour Act, which will,\
  \ among other things, re-regulate the area of student work. We are aware that student\
  \ work in its current form has already outlived its main purpose, i.e. to complement\
  \ studies, to provide practical experience, as well as to provide additional resources\
  \ to improve social status and to finance extracurricular activities.\nThe proposal\
  \ that has been made on the portal highlights the problem that we want to solve\
  \ in the framework of the Small Work Act. The Bill defines small-scale work as paid\
  \ temporary, casual or more permanent work for a limited period of time for students,\
  \ retired, unemployed and other inactive persons, not exceeding 60 hours/month.\
  \ An exception is made for students who, because of their study commitments, are\
  \ allowed to work more hours per month, but may not exceed the permitted annualised\
  \ amount of 720 hours in any calendar year. The annual earnings from this activity\
  \ are also capped at \u20AC6,000, with a minimum hourly rate of \u20AC4.00.\nThere\
  \ are also restrictions on small-scale work for employers, and we propose to limit\
  \ the number of hours of small-scale work that can be carried out for an individual\
  \ employer in a calendar month. This is to prevent the abuse of small-scale work\
  \ in cases where the work should be subject to an employment relationship under\
  \ the Employment Relations Act.\nThe aim of the Small Work Act is to establish a\
  \ system that will more effectively protect the rights of students and provide them\
  \ with adequate security on the labour market, while preserving the positive aspects\
  \ of the current regulation of student work. While the Small Work Act cannot solve\
  \ the problem of fictitious and alternative enrolments in order to maintain student\
  \ status, we believe that the restrictions on small-scale work and the fact that\
  \ unemployed persons will also be able to work small-scale will reduce the interest\
  \ in such abuses of the system. The Ministry of Higher Education and Technology\
  \ is also already preparing the ground for the introduction of a single enrolment\
  \ register, which will reduce the number of abuses by making the status of students\
  \ more transparent."
response date: 2010-05-11
response due date: null
sent date: 2010-03-09
title: Student work
upvotes: 19
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/548
